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and also won florida by more than 70,000 votes. i think that reveals the politics with the cuban-american community may be changing significantly. again, this probably should not have come as a great surprise or shock to people following it, but it seems to have gotten a lot of attention. there may be more space to pursue more energetic policy of engagement from obama with cuba. from obama point of view, i think there has been some steps made with the lifting of restrictions on travel and remittances of cuban-americans and making travel more flexible. there's a sense not much has changed from the latin perspective. perhaps in the second term, there may be more of a change moving forward. on this issue, we also have to look carefully at the composition of the new congress and some of the pieces moving around. some new members of congress, some members of congress that held important positions that will no longer be holding them in the next couple of years and the senator from texas, also a cuban-american. congress obviously will be
and also won florida by more than 70,000 votes. i think that reveals the politics with the cuban-american community may be changing significantly. again, this probably should not have come as a great surprise or shock to people following it, but it seems to have gotten a lot of attention. there may be more space to pursue more energetic policy of engagement from obama with cuba. from obama point of view, i think there has been some steps made with the lifting of restrictions on travel and...
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florida is number one for foreclosures. st. lucie county is in the top two of the counties in florida. >> what is your solution for your district to create jobs -- not about policies that have failed or succeeded in the past. what are you doing? >> congressman west is great at blaming people. i have created jobs. the first thing i would like to push forward is a piece of legislation that allows businesses to expensed 100% of their investment in the first year. this is something that came out of the jobs bill, and it incentivizes companies to invest. companies are sitting on cash and they are not investing in. we need to incentivize them to do that. >> how about repatriation? one of the things we have been talking about this $4 trillion of capital to come back here. 37 pieces of legislation i have voted on is sitting on harry reid's desk. >> i am not there yet. >> let's move ahead to george. >> you mentioned you were a small businessmen. coastal construction group is one of the biggest general contractors in south florida. your
florida is number one for foreclosures. st. lucie county is in the top two of the counties in florida. >> what is your solution for your district to create jobs -- not about policies that have failed or succeeded in the past. what are you doing? >> congressman west is great at blaming people. i have created jobs. the first thing i would like to push forward is a piece of legislation that allows businesses to expensed 100% of their investment in the first year. this is something that...
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the president will be in hollywood florida with the congress won from southwest florida and the chair of the democratic committee. a late afternoon rally in pennsylvania outside of pennsylvania -- mayor romney willon
the president will be in hollywood florida with the congress won from southwest florida and the chair of the democratic committee. a late afternoon rally in pennsylvania outside of pennsylvania -- mayor romney willon
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assuming he does that and does not decide to go for the budget, it will probably be bill nelson from florida who just won reelection. but here is my conspiracy- minded way is going on -- let's say ron wind and decided he really wanted budget and not energy, who would be chairman? mary landrieu -- a complete nightmare for the democrats -- coming from an oil-producing state she is really not in line with most of the party on the issues. i had a conversation with a democratic aide not to long ago where i basically said, so, you guys will do everything you can to make sure it does not happen, right? even if patty murray decides not to take budget, you r will ron widen stay there -- their answer was, we do not think we will get to that point. which is estimated will do everything they can to prevent mary landrieu from taking the gavel. but she is close. and any other on the republican side. is the republican leadership wincing at the thought about new ranking republican members doing damage to the agenda? chuck grassley, installed judiciary, and orrin hatch? >> i think both of them have establish
assuming he does that and does not decide to go for the budget, it will probably be bill nelson from florida who just won reelection. but here is my conspiracy- minded way is going on -- let's say ron wind and decided he really wanted budget and not energy, who would be chairman? mary landrieu -- a complete nightmare for the democrats -- coming from an oil-producing state she is really not in line with most of the party on the issues. i had a conversation with a democratic aide not to long ago...
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do you honestly believe that florida will one day secede from the union? caller: i tell you, i am originally from new york. in 2008 i witnessed the acorn people go around the cemetery and take names off tombstones. we have pictures of them getting in and out of their car. then i understand they did not go away, they came back and they started airing of voter machines. taken to the ballot box, that is a great in theory but to was to believe the ballot box after this last election? guest: well, there is always going to be imperfections in human endeavors and i think the answer is to work to try to eliminate the imperfections and make it more perfect, to make it better. the preamble to the constitution says in order to form a more perfect union, as compared with the loose articles of confederation. that is a testament to the human striving to make things more perfect. it is also an argument that there cannot be secession, it is not illegal because the constitution says in order to form a more perfect union. on the other side, the articles of confederation act
do you honestly believe that florida will one day secede from the union? caller: i tell you, i am originally from new york. in 2008 i witnessed the acorn people go around the cemetery and take names off tombstones. we have pictures of them getting in and out of their car. then i understand they did not go away, they came back and they started airing of voter machines. taken to the ballot box, that is a great in theory but to was to believe the ballot box after this last election? guest: well,...
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i gather this from talking to a lot of people in florida. you can pick up a lot of good insight in the checkout line at a grocery store, pick your kids up from school and traveling the country as i have had the opportunity to do. here is a problem i have seen -- our economy has stagnated, particularly the middle class. today workers are not making as much as it once made in john -- in jobs 10, 15, 20 years ago. my father was a bartender, my mother a maid at hotels. they were able to provide for us in standard of living, not rich by any means. we only had everything we needed. my parents were able to provide as the standard of living with those jobs. it is very difficult to do that nowadays. the fact is our middle-class has stopped growing. wages in the middle class have stopped growing as well. private health insurance is harder to find. today 45 million americans have no health insurance coverage. health care costs are taking a bigger bite out of their monthly paycheck. this issue of our middle class been under assault in appealing threaten
i gather this from talking to a lot of people in florida. you can pick up a lot of good insight in the checkout line at a grocery store, pick your kids up from school and traveling the country as i have had the opportunity to do. here is a problem i have seen -- our economy has stagnated, particularly the middle class. today workers are not making as much as it once made in john -- in jobs 10, 15, 20 years ago. my father was a bartender, my mother a maid at hotels. they were able to provide for...